Dewey Decimal Classification: A Study Manual and Number Building Guide, 21st Edition - Hardcover

Mona L. Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563085984 ISBN 13: 9781563085987

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Updating the important work done by Osborne and Comaromi in previous editions, this new edition of Dewey Decimal Classification, 20th Edition: A Study Manual (Libraries Unlimited, 1991) introduces readers to DDC21 from a practical user's point of view. After a historical review of the Classification, Scott describes and illustrates the notable changes that have been made to the twenty-first edition. The book provides an in-depth review of how DDC is updated and gives detailed lists of such changes in each table and class. Examples and exercises assist the user in fully understanding the Classification's use, down to the book number. In addition, changes that appear in the 21st Dewey and brief descriptions of their application are included to guide users in applying the Classification in the cataloging process. An extensive bibliography and index complete the work. The most thorough introduction to the twenty-first edition of DDC available, it is an essential purchase for technical services departm

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About the Author

MONA L. SCOTT, School Library Media Specialist, North Stafford High School, Stafford, Virginia and former Head of Technical Services, SANAD, Inc.

From Library Journal

Every library buys material requiring classification "from scratch" without help from CIP, OCLC, etc. In many libraries, the task falls to a nonspecialist who dreads facing Dewey alone. Scott, a former head of SANAD Support Technologies Inc.'s technical services division and now a school library media specialist, furnishes relief with this manual, covering the Dewey Decimal Classification's (DDC) history, principles, and content. Ten chapters cover the ten main classes, 000s-900s, and include exercises, preceded by four chapters on history and current status, general aspects, principles of number building, and the tables. A final chapter explaining book numbers is very useful since many catalogers need help in turning DDC numbers into full shelf addresses. A bibliography, answers to the exercises, and an index complete the book. Scott highlights features of the 21st edition that differ from previous ones, assuming most readers need special help here. Other manuals exist?the printed DDC has one; Lois M. Chan and others did one for Forest Press (Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide, 1996. 2d ed.); there is Pat Sifton's Workbook for DDC 21 (Canadian Library Association, 1998); and every cataloging textbook has a chapter on it?but Scott moves a student or novice through DDC more slowly and completely than the cataloging texts, her language is simpler and more understandable than DDC's guides, and the Canadian text is more of a workbook. Scott's manual is recommended for formal library school courses and on-the-job training.?Sheila S. Intner, GSLIS, Simmons Coll., Boston
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1563085984
• ISBN 13: 9781563085987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 225